Re: [patch] block: clarify documentation for blk_{start|finish}_plug

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On 1/8/19 2:57 PM, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> There was some confusion about what these functions did.  Make it clear
> that this is a hint for upper layers to pass to the block layer, and
> that it does not guarantee that I/O will not be submitted between a
> start and finish plug.

Thanks Jeff, that's definitely an improvement, I like how it's phrased
as intent, there are no guarantees and we can change things down the
line as well (the auto-unplug threshold is a good example of that).

Applied for 5.0.

-- 
Jens Axboe




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